Determinant -Guardians of Vesturon [3] (43 page)
Suddenly, she heard the whirring sound of a drill and then one of the people strapped down next to her started screaming. Saylan tried to look at what was happening, but she could only move her eyes. The screaming continued, but eventually turned into a whimper and finally eased off altogether.
“Xarrid, where are you? You have to find me! And now! They are doing horrible stuff to people here! Help me please!”
Saylan squeezed her eyes tightly shut and prayed for help to come. She knew if it didn’t, she would rather die than face certain torture at the hands of these cruel evil Xanthians.
Saylan heard footsteps approaching again. She opened her eyes to see a high-ranking Xanthian in uniform.
“Do you know who I am?” he wanted to know.
“No. Should I?”
“Maybe. I am the second in command your Guardians scoffed at whenever we would attempt to negotiate.”
“You never attempted to negotiate anything. You always demanded and you were never in a position to do so.”
“Is that a fact? I wonder how you will feel in a day or so,” he ran his finger down her cheek and she shuddered. “Let me fill you in on something. You are soon going to be wishing with every bone in your attractive little body that your Guardians had negotiated with us.” He leaned down cupped her cheek and whispered into her ear, “You, my dear, are going to be a part of an experiment we are conducting here. We are getting ready to implant a nano-chip into your cerebral cortex. Within days, that chip will begin to transform and mutate. Soon, it will develop and grow, like a cancer, spreading, infiltrating and becoming a part of you so that eventually it will be indistinguishable from the rest of your brain. You will become it and it will become you. You will do exactly as we tell you and you will obey our every command. When we tell you to jump, you will only want to know how high. We will
own
you, to do with exactly as we please. And Guardian, no one but us will know.” He took his fat, grey finger and ran it from the base of her throat down to her waist. Then he stood with a satisfied smirk and turning he continued, “Robot, complete the procedure.”
Saylan saw the robot approach and heard the whirring of the drill before the most excruciating pain pierced her skull and she began screaming.
The End
Coming in early 2013......
reEMERGENT
Book 4 of The Guardians of Vesturon Series
Will Xarrid find Saylan? Or will Saylan face a hopeless fate at the hands of the cruel Xanthians?
About the Author
A.M. Hargrove lives in South Carolina with her husband and two children. After spending years working in management for a large pharmaceutical company, she now enjoys nothing better than spending time at her Mac writing fiction. Her hobbies include hiking, backpacking in the Smoky Mountains, camping, snow skiing, trail running, cooking and snorkeling.
She hopes you’ve enjoyed
DETERMINANT,
the third installment of the
Guardians of Vesturon.
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reEMERGENT,
in early 2013.
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